On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 4:36 PM, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>> To me, being able to say "pg_ctl promote_right_now -m yes_i_mean_it"
>> seems like a friendlier interface than making somebody shut down the
>> server, run pg_resetxlog, and start it up again.
>
> It makes sense to go from paused --> promoted.
Well, we could certainly require that people call
pg_xlog_replay_pause() before they call pg_promote_now(). I don't
think I like that better, but it beats not having pg_promote_now().
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